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The Filter Photo Festival: Both Sides of the Table Part 2 by Aline SmithsonOctober 15th, 2013

Today, Lenscratch Editorial Assistants, Sarah Stankey and Grant Gill, reflect on their experiences being on the other side of the reviews at this year’s Filter Photo Festival.

The Filter Photo Festival: From Both Sides of the Table by Aline SmithsonOctober 14th, 2013

The Filter Photo Festival , which takes place in Chicago each September, was particularly special for me for several reasons.

Dirk Fletcher: Shooting Skyward by Aline SmithsonOctober 6th, 2013

I had the great pleasure of meeting photographic visionary Dirk Fletcher last week in Chicago.

Going, Going, Going Viral Part 2 by Aline SmithsonOctober 3rd, 2013

image by Clay Lipsky

Today’s post continues to explore the phenomenon of “going viral.

Going, Going, Going Viral, Part 1 by Aline SmithsonOctober 2nd, 2013

image by Carli Davidson

As someone who shares the work of a different photographer every day, I often make an effort to choose projects that might not have seen the light of day or haven&#

Lauren Henkin: 3/3 Broadsides by Aline SmithsonSeptember 29th, 2013

In 2010, artist Lauren Henkin began self publishing her work in beautiful handmade books.

500 Days of Six Shooters by Aline SmithsonSeptember 24th, 2013

#500 Noelle Swan Gilbert

I’m not exactly sure how many words it takes to have a conversation these days (“Sup? nm, u?”), but today I am celebrating a visual conversation

Bring The Great Picture to New Orleans by Aline SmithsonSeptember 14th, 2013

Seven hot summer nights ago in 2006, two photographer friends, Kathleen Laria McLaughlin and Amanda Keller Konya and I drove an hour south to an abandoned Air Force base in Southern Califor

LENSCRATCH 2.0 by Aline SmithsonSeptember 9th, 2013

For almost seven years , writing LENSCRATCH has been a solo expedition, not unlike the photograph above.

Canteen Magazine Naked Judging: Emma Powell by Aline SmithsonMarch 10th, 2013

Today ends the Canteen Magazine Naked Judging posts–I hope they were insightful and illuminating and I hope you have learned that just as people are flawed, so is the process of judgin

Canteen Magazine’s Naked Judging: Bear Kirkpatrick by Aline SmithsonMarch 9th, 2013

Just for the record, Bear Kirkpatrick is a friend of mine, so I was feeling his pain as the judges were less than careful when treading on his photographs in Canteen Magazine’s Live Na